CatfishVT9
Anti-Democrat
"I also listen to Rush, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity.
Are you watching a Michael Moore Crockumentary?"
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Catfish,
I, like you, recently left the magical land of Drawing a Navy Officer's Paycheck. Remember that one: It’s-sure-to-be-there on-the-first-and-fifteenth-so-long-as-I-don't-bang-that-hot-YN3-in-Admin-or-go-AWOL.
The military is a very conservative, very Republican place. We're acculturated to be way more Genghis Kahn than Paul Wellstone. And for good reason.
But now we're in the scary, desolate landscape that is airline economics. The primary feature of these mysterious, new rules is for company executives to screw over labor in order to lower cost, increase stock price, and for, well, the inherent pleasure of screwing over labor. They all have golden parachutes, what do they care? They may as well have some fun.
To be anti-Democrat and pro-Sean Hannity in this context reminds me of the Clayton Bigsby Dave Chappelle episode. Clayton was the blind black man who was the white supremacist. It's some funny sh!t, but it's sad too when considering its metaphoric value.
Alannis Morrisette was totally wrong. A fly in your chardonnay is not ironic...but an airline pilot with an "Anti-Democrat" slogan certainly is.
I don't expect you, nor do I want you, to completely alter or renounce your previous philosophy. But I would respectfully recommend studying labor history in general and airline labor history specifically. You may find that the Republicans aren't the complete heroes and the Democrats aren't the complete goats that we were told by Gunnery Sergeant Jones. An updated, tempered worldview may serve you a little better.
Just an observation...please don’t take as a slam.
P.S. That theoretical YN3 to whom I earlier referred WAS a female, thankyouverymuch. Everyone’s enthusiasm for Brokeback Mountain has made me self-concious.
